The New Geography of Innovation
Mehran Gul
HarperCollins
Pp 368, Rs 599
This is a story about technology and the places where it finds its way into the world. Silicon Valley has for half a century been unrivalled in spinning out technologies and fast-growing, high-value tech companies. But the geography of innovation is shifting. The world has a lot more high-value tech companies than ever before, growing a lot faster than ever before, in a lot more places than ever before. This is a book about these places.
In Praise of Coalition Politics
Manoj K Jha
Speaking Tiger Books
Pp 232, Rs 499
In a time of democratic backsliding and institutional erosion, Manoj Kumar Jha’s collection of essays offers a stirring and necessary voice of conscience. The essays examine the bulldozing of constitutional safeguards, state-sanctioned bigotry and the everyday injustice faced by Dalits and Muslims, the retreat of federalism in the face of a hyper-centralised state, the shrinking of academic freedom and criminalisation of protest, and more.
Fast Money
Christian Sylt & Caroline Reid
Hachette
Pp 368, Rs 899
As one of the world’s most popular sports, and with races in far corners of the globe, Formula One is big business. Its drivers are among the world’s most highly paid athletes, and it costs more than a billion pounds to keep its ten teams ticking over. With unparalleled insight and decades of reporting, Christian Sylt and Caroline Reid describe the pivotal moments which have driven the sport to new heights.
The Earth
Dr Elsa Panciroli
Hachette
Pp 336, Rs 599
The evolution of life is a sweeping epic of a tale, with twists and turns, surprising heroes and unlikely survivors. The Earth beautifully distils this complex story into a meaningful scale. In taking a closer look at 47 carefully selected organisms over 15 periods in our planetary history, this book tells the whole story of life on Earth, and the interconnectedness that unites us through our ecosystems and planetary history.
Language of the Immortals
GN Devy
Aleph Book Company
Pp 96, Rs 399
Sanskrit has long been celebrated as one of the building blocks of Indian civilisation, and is venerated in temples, scriptures, and classical literature. In Language of the Immortals, GN Devy uncovers the astounding paradox of Sanskrit—an ancient language that shaped Indian thought, philosophy, and identity for millennia, yet was never truly a language of the people. Devy dismantles enduring myths and offers a revealing commentary on Sanskrit’s historical and cultural trajectory.
